We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and HPE Hyper Converged based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also then have to work with multiple vendors."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."
"The resiliency and data protection are the most valuable features."
"The solution is scalable."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"The solution has many good features."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."
"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"This solution is very costly."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Is very resilient and protects our data, but the solution is complex". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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